Melanie Dulong de Rosnay - Institute of Information Law, University of Amsterdam

Facilitating sharing and reuse

- Science Commons - focused on science and has many initiatives, this CC science commons license can be attached to the contract with publishers...

- CC - legal and technical tools

Science commons protocol for implementing Open access data - allow massive-scale machine integration of data with the 'lowest possible transaction costs on users'. all data can be re-mixed/re-used without a problem.

Different forms of OA

- Economic OA

- Legal OA

- Technical OA

Technical Barriers

- protections measures

Science Commons-

check if they were really accessible

- she checked the open data protocol on the databases..

molecular biology databases: 20% of the DB's are actually open...they checked how they can provide OA.